"We should have murdered an awful lot more people to achieve victory, we just didn't kill enough and destroy enough of a foreign country to achieve the peace of the grave we needed." What is wrong with people.https://twitter.com/GrayConnolly/status/1402166591588945926 …
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Yeah, definitely a big "sometimes" for Rome. Plenty of backfires (e.g., preemptively massacring the maybe-disloyal population of Enna in the 2PW and pushing a bunch more communities towards Carthage), and violence "works" best when they're also winning militarily.
Absolutely. And also its important to keep in mind, in terms of strategic objectives, that the Romans want to control those people, not simply kill them all. Pace Josephus, but Roman Judaea is not a success story, even if Rome keeps control of the territory.
